Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
The stat comparisons provided here show some influential Skarner vs. Morgana counter statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Morgana’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Morgana..
Skarner often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Morgana. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when taking on Morgana, with a 44.0% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes a poor counter for Morgana.
While Skarner does have a much lower winrate compared to Morgana, when facing one another, Skarner also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Skarner into Morgana.
Moreover, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Morgana matchups, Morgana is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Skarner is a trash counter to Morgana. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Morgana.
To truly master Skarner to counter Morgana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner on average picks up less CS relative to Morgana. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Skarner versus Morgana build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Morgana than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 44.0% when playing against Morgana with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Morgana as Skarner, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Skarner vs Morgana counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.0% win rate overall.
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